ARCHITECTURAL FOCUS
The venue is designed to be open and inviting, encouraging user interaction and exploration.
while projecting unconventional volumetric presence. The resulting densely layered, radiating beam system reveals the logic of architectural structure and reinterprets timber aesthetics in a modern context, expressing both structural clarity and cultural depth.
The venue is designed to be open and inviting, encouraging user interaction and exploration. It transforms guided viewing into immersive experience, supporting active engagement with equestrian culture. The spatial arrangement creates a series of connected yet independent courtyard-like zones that evoke the history of Lingnan’ s vernacular architecture.
At ground level, various corridors of different scales connect spaces across multiple elevations. Light, wind, and landscape penetrate the building through these openings, allowing serendipitous encounters between people and the elements. This interplay reinforces a Chinese cultural atmosphere and creates a rich, multisensory experience. The design emphasizes emotional resonance and cultural expression, reinterpreting tradition to meet contemporary cultural needs.
The architecture integrates form and structure, achieving transparency and interaction between interior and exterior. The continuous, lightweight façade accentuates the hovering eaves, reinforcing regional cultural identity. Beneath these shared eaves, the mountain, wind, light, shadow, people, and horses coexist— symbiotic and perceptive, in harmony with nature.
• Architects: Tanghua Architects
• Area: 44600 m ²
• Photographs: Chao Zhang
• Lead Architects: Tang Hua
• Contractor: China Construction Eighth Engineering Bureau Co., Ltd.
www. tanghuaarchitects. com
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